Polquhirter Burn in the parish of New Cumnock is a tributary of the mighty River Nith which rises in the hills of New Cumnock before
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National Poetry Day and New Cumnock Herd Fair
Today is National Poetry Day with a theme of water. This combination for most New Cumnockians would bring one work to mind – our national
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill O, were I on Parnassus hill, Or had o’ Helicon my fill, That I might catch poetic skill, To
Thomas Campbell and his Robert Burns’ connections
Thomas Campbell of Pencloe Thomas Campbell was baptised on the 4th April 1746, third born of Hugh Campbell and Agnes Logan of Lanemark in the
Covenanters, Coal and Robert Burns
COVENANTERS The ancestral seat of the Gordons of Earlstoun stood a few miles north of St. John’s Town of Dalry in Kirkcudbrightshire. William, 3rd Gordon
NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY 